Early clinical experience with a newly formulated hydroxyethyl starch–Hextend

Early clinical experience with a newly formulated hydroxyethyl starch--Hextend.

AWBATTM: Early Clinical Experience

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to describe the early clinical experience with AWBAT. METHODS Burn patients requiring (1) donor sites or (2) treatment of a superficial burn wound injury were treated. A total of 45 patients with 69 distinct wounds were included. AWBAT-D was evaluated in donor sites and AWBAT-S was evaluated in superficial partial-thickness burns. Days to healing, pain...

Effectiveness of early clinical exposure in learning respiratory physiology among the newly entrant MBBS students

Introduction: Early Clinical Exposure has been conceptualizedto orient medical students towards actual clinical scenario andhelp them correlate their theoretical knowledge with real lifesituations in early years of MBBS courses. In the present studywe explored the outcome of early clinical exposure in the contextof basic science topics (Physiology) in fresh MBBS entrantsand compared their perfo...

Early experience with a newly developed electrospun polycarbonate-urethane vascular graft for hemodialysis access.

PURPOSE In this pilot study, we tested a newly developed electrospun multilayered, self-sealing graft, AVflo™, specifically designed for early hemodialysis access. 
 METHODS Ten eligible consenting patients had a polycarbonate-urethane graft (AVflo™) implanted and were followed up prospectively for at least six months. Performance measures included graft patency, complications and time to fir...

Commissioning and early experience with a new generation low-energy linear accelerator in zahedan

Introduction: Since commissioning beam data are treated as a reference and ultimately used by treatment planning systems, it is vitally important that the collected data are of the highest quality to avoid dosimetric and patient treatment errors that may subsequently lead to a poor radiation outcome. Beam data commissioning should be performed with appropriate knowledge and pr...